Record ID: DENO-1AD87A
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy post-medieval button possibly dating to the 17th to 19th centuries, missing its attachment loop. The button is a flat disc. The motif on the front is moulded in low relieve. The image is symmetrical and possibly floral. Recessed areas might have contained enamel, but none survives. The reverse is flat except for the stump of the attachment loop. Overall, the object measures 30.7 mm in diameter and 3.9 mm thick. It weighs 7.87 g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 8th May 2018Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-9209B7
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Roman rectangular seal box lid, with enamelled detailing. The lid is rectangular and decorated with four rows of four square recessed cells which would once have contained enamel (now mostly missing). One of the colours seems to have been a red-brown, the other is indistinguishable (though one square seems to show blue?). The lid has three intact, undecorated sides. The fourth edge of the lid has no rim and instead contains a small central projection, part of the hinge mechanism. The copper-alloy surfaces are grey-green, with more of a red-brown surface on the under…
Created on: Wednesday 14th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 11th April 2018Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-6CE2B7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Barnsley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver post-medieval 'pine tree' Massachusetts shilling, date 1652 but minted between 1667 - 1674.
Though dated '1652', such coins tend to be attributed to the period c. 1667 - c. 1674. All 'pine tree' issues show the date 1652 owing to the fact that the colony understood it had no rights to mint coinage, perhaps wanting to create the illusion it only minted during the period immediately after the Civil War (Newman 1973, 101-2; Sylla 1982, 24).
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 14th May 2018Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-7D6766
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blue glass bead of uncertain date. Beads made of light blue glass are very difficult to date and could be from any period from Roman to modern. The bead measures 7.7 mm long and 8.5 mm in diameter. The perforation is drilled and measures 3.4 mm in diameter. The bead weighs 0.68 g.
Created on: Monday 18th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2017Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-7C9143
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy post-medieval finger ring (AD c. 1500 - c.1900). The ring has a simple circular hoop, which is D-shaped in cross-section. The outer surface is decorated with a repeating pattern of a sunburst and two quarter flowers. The motif is repeated four times and are separated by a transverse goove. Overall, the ring measures 21.8 mm in diameter, 6.2 mm wide and has a hoop thickness of 2.0 mm. It weighs 5.09 g.
Several similar finger rings have been recorded recently including DENO-C49E45 and DENO-17806A.
Created on: Monday 18th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2017Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-ABEF13
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass late Roman to Anglo-Saxon bead dating to the fourth to seventh centuries AD. The bead is globular and decorated with white and pale blue crossed waves and yellow and green eyes.
It is made from opaque black glass with six pellets of opaque yellow glass arranged around the edge. Each yellow glass pellet has a translucent green glass pellet near its centre. These pellets are known as 'eyes'. Additionally there is a pattern of raised lines of opaque white and pale blue glass, known as crossed waves. These lines are incomplete, indicating that some of the glass has worn away. T…
Created on: Friday 8th December 2017
Last updated: Thursday 14th December 2017Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-972066
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman flat enamelled disc brooch (AD c. 80 - c. 250). The brooch has an oval-shaped plate, but edges are worn and the enamelled design suggests that the brooch was originally circular. The design consists of a central circular cell, missing its enamel inlay, with a wide copper alloy border. Surrounding this is a wide circle of blue enamel with six raised copper alloy pellets arranged in a circle within the enamel. Two very similar brooches are depicted in Hattatt (1989, p.344, fig. 203, nos 1029 and 1030), indicating that this brooch was originally circular.…
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2017Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-00FD99
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure Case 2017 T1133: Medieval Finger Ring
Description:
A gold medieval 'stirrup-shaped' finger ring with a blue stone setting (AD c.1200-c.1300).
The hoop of the ring is is broadly circular in shape and D-shaped in cross-section (flat on the inside edge). The bezel and shoulders are broadly triangular in shape with bevelled inner edged. The seeing is a hexagonal blue stone, possibly a sapphire, facetted on the sides and cabochon on top.
Overall, the ring measures 29.4 mm in length from top of the bezel to the back of the hoop, has an external diameter of 23.1 mm and a hoop wid…
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alfreton', grid reference and parish protected.